Coffey Cousins' Clearinghouse

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

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About This Site

Coffey Cousins' Clearinghouse is a genealogy site created to assist researchers with Coffey or Coffee ancestors. Although representing the Clearinghouse as an on-line source of information, this web page and all attached web pages were designed by and are the property of Jack K. Coffee.

The Coffey Cousins' Clearinghouse was the child of Leonard N. Coffey (1930-1989), and began with his newsletter to help bring together a very loosely organized group of genealogists researching their Coffee/Coffey ancestors. After Leonard died in 1989, his family gave the newsletter to Bonnie Culley. Bonnie has been the editor and publisher since that time, celebrating her 20th year as editor at the 2009 Coffey Cousins’ reunion in Russell Co., KY.  Her  newsletter is the organ that continues to invite subscribers and other interested researchers together yearly to share information, or to just socialize.

This group of people are, as termed by former and long time "president" Jeff Coffey of San Antonio, TX, a "disorganized organization" with no constitution, by-laws or other legal documents to impede the fun and fellowship that our annual gatherings attempt to present. 

Officers for 2010 are:

 President Jean Coffee Mower of Claymont, DE.  Vice-president Gail Bachman of Baltimore, MD, Secretary Nelda Coffee of Sunset, LA and Treasurer Danny Coffey of Jamestown, KY.

The Coffey Cousins' Clearinghouse newsletter and this website can always use scholarly research papers, other text files, civil records, photographs, arguments for or against a particular family connection, and the like. Feel free to send information to me, or to Bonnie Culley at the address below.

Contact Bonnie Culley, editor and publisher of the Coffey Cousins' Clearinghouse newsletter with information to be included in her newsletter and for all questions concerning the newsletter and subscriptions.  Bonnie can be reached by e-mail at bculey@embarqmail.com or write to her at 4012 Cambridge Circle, Jefferson City, MO 65109. Potential subscribers can write to Bonnie and request a sample copy of a recent newsletter.

 

Reunion News and Updates

The 2009 Coffey Cousins’ Reunion is history.  Coffey/Coffee families from as far away as Washington state and as near as Russel Co., KY were present.   A headcount at dinner on Saturday night showed that 68 people were in attendance.  Jean Coffee Mower of Delaware was elected president for the coming year.  She is, to my recollection, the first woman president.  Jean and her husband Wayne will host the 2010 reunion in Delaware.  Gale Bachman was reelected vice-president, Nelda Coffee reelected secretary and, Danny Coffey was reelected treasurer.  Having mostly ladies in charge of the “business” end of the reunion will bring about a whole new concept and I’m already anticipating the trip north next year.  I’ll have more details here and on the blog as they become available.  Some photographs have already been posted there, and others will be soon.  It’s much easier and more convenient to post photos there than on this website.

Coffey Family Reunion – Russell Springs, KY

A type in this quarter’s Coffey Cousins’ Newsletter reported an incorrect date for the Coffey Family Reunion in Russell Springs.  The date of this family reunion is August 22, 2009 at the Russell Springs City Park.  Contact Carolyn Coffey for more information.

Texas Coffee/Coffey Family Reunion

This reunion is to be held July 17-20, 2009 in Amarillo, TX at the Country Inn and Suites.  For more information on this gathering contact Richard Glasscock, 6328 Hampton, Dr., Amarillo TX 79109 or, via e-mail.

 

Coffey Family Reunion at Boliver, Missouri

Saturday, July 18, 2009 at the home of Danny Coffey near Bolivor, MO.  Meat furnished.  Please bring a dish to share.  Meal starts at 6 p.m.  For more info call Danny Coffey at 417-326-4731.

Coffey+Welborn Reunion

This reunion will be held Sunday, October 4, 2009 at the McCaleb Coffey house.  Contact Martha Carter Kirby for directions and more info. [I presume this is in North Carolina.  The CC newsletter article mentions “the yellow McCaleb Coffey house at the bottom of the mountain as [another] one is in route to Blowing Rock, NC.”]

The Edward Coffey Project

 

A few users continue to monopolize my server by downloading thousands of pages from this project.  As a result, I will no longer be updating that information.  The project will continue to be available on CD at the current cost of $10 per CD.  It can be ordered by check to me at 308 Summer Ridge Loop, Sunset, LA 70584 or, from the blog site using the secure servers at Pay Pal.

 

Index to Coffey Cousins’ Newsletter

 

An index to all 110 issues of the Coffey Cousins’ newsletter is available.  It contains 547 pages with 3,573 different surnames and 17 spellings of Coffey, not counting the nine with and “r” or and “n” in them.  Available for $10 from Reams Goodloe, PO Box 9332, Covington, WA 98042.

 

Free Book

 

Fred Coffey and Kevin Coffey collaborated on a project to compose a “book” containing a tabulation and genealogy of all the Coffey families they could identify as living in or near Russell Co., KY.  They worked through census records from 1810 to 1880 as well as through abstracts of tax lists, deed books, etc. to compile names, sources, statistics and connections.  The book is available free by download (150 pages) from Fred’s website.

 

New Service

 

Bonnie Culley has recently released CDs containing issues 1 though 93 of the Coffey Cousins’ Newsletter.  The files are in PDF format and can be searched using the newsletter index provided here.  The index can also be purchased from Reams Goodloe.  Write to Bonnie at the above address for cost of the newsletter CDs.

 

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One Story of "Coffeytown" in Amherst County, Virginia 1827-Present

by John Taylor

This file is the complete handout prepared and presented to those who made the trip to Coffeytown in Amherst Co., VA during the 2008 Coffey Cousins' Reunion.  It is a PDF file and can be downloaded and printed in full color on your home or office printer.  You can also take it to Office Depot, Staples or Kinko's, for example, and have it printed and bound.  The complete file is approximately 2.6 megabytes.

 


 

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My Paternal Side:

Descendants of Lilburn C. Coffee

Descendants of William and Fanny Bishop White

Historical Notes - Nola and Elizabeth Boone White

Descendants of William Bucner Bishop and Sarah Runnels

Descendants of Dudley Runnels and brother, Harmon Runnels

Descendants of Benjamin Hubert

Descendants of Benjamin Walker

Descendants of Nelson Blunt

Descendants of Nicholas Delafield

Descendants of Thomas Moore

Descendants of William Leonard

Descendants of James Slack

Descendants of Hugh Coyle

Descendants of Frederick Braley

Descendants of William and Fanny Bishop White

Historical Notes - Nola and Elizabeth Boone White

My Maternal Side:

Descendants of Isaac Allen Pullam

Descendants of John William Smith

Descendants of John Roe

Descendants of Richard Tickell

My Wife's Maternal Side:

Descendants of Jacques Bourgeois

My Wife's Paternal Side:

Descendants of Simon Francois Laurent


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